[Numpy-discussion] Any Numeric or numarray users on this list? (original) (raw)

Travis Oliphant oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Fri Jun 9 19:57:46 EDT 2006

Thanks for your response to the questionaire.

3) Please, explain your reason(s) for not making the switch. (if you answered No to #2)

Lack of time. Some of the changes from Numeric are subtle and require a careful analysis of the code, and then careful testing. For big applications, that's a lot of work. There are also modules (I am thinking of RNG) that have been replaced by something completely different that needs to be evaluated first.

You may be interested to note that I just added the RNG interface to numpy for back-wards compatibility.
It can be accessed and used by re-placing

import RNG

with

import numpy.random.oldrng as RNG

Best regards,

-Travis

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